The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-28
ANOTHER INVITATION ACCEPTED.

The President Promises to Visit Kansas City
in the Early Part of October.
WASHINGTON. July ga delegation from
Kansas City called at the White House shortly
after noon to-day to invite the President to visit
that city during his Western tour in October.
Mr.. G. Fl. Allen spoke in behalf of Kansas City
and the President replied follows:
Mr.. Allen and Gentlemen-I should not be
frank with you if / professed that the invitation
which you have just now pleasantly and
cordially extended the first intmatlon I
have had of your desire that | should you at
your beautiful home. / have thought that any
trip might make taking me in your neghbor-
hood would be incomplete and wanting in ad-
vantage and profit il it did not include
city am specially pleased that the
invitation which you SO kindly extend to me has
partisan political feature but that the
sirous of exhibiting to their servant and the
chief magistrate of all the people what they
have done and contributed towards the national
greatness and prosperity, of which every Amer
lean citizen is or should be proud; and the pleas
which the non political feature of your invi-
tation gives me is increased by the fact that
Kansas City is represented here by the parties
who actually engaged IN the divers enter
prises which have made your city great and
prosperous. and that every interest which she
fosters has place in the delegation see before
me- want to see your city, and L can discern
opportunity TO do so unless | extend the trip
to St. Louis, already determined upon, and
include Kansas City among the places l shall
visit. The consideration l have already given
the subject and the heartiness and sincerity of
your invitation. induce me TO accept 1t at once.
My time upon this contemplated trip will, of
course, be limited, and many places which !
should be glad to must be passed by; but I
so free from doubt To what l should do in
response to your invitation that think it would
be affectation to do otherwise than to assure you
that your city shall be included my schemes.
] cannot fix the exact date when / will be
with you. but shall be glad to arrange that and
thnrG Ga%n 10 hawa ffn~r ~
behalf. l might add, in a general way, that the
time of my visit will be between the LIST and 10Th
of October"
The Presidents remarks were loudly cheered,
and as the applause subsded he turned to Mr..
Allen and remarked, sotto voice. ''If this is an
evidence of the way you will treat when
get to Kansas City, don't know when shall be
able to leave there"
Mr.. Cleveland spent some time in examining
the invitation, which was lying on the table be-
side him. 1t is large volume handsomely
bound in seaskin and bearing on a white satin
panel, inserted in the cover the words: '.Kan-
City to President Cleveland and Mrs. Cleye-
land, greeting 1887" The first six leaves of the
book contain six allegorical figures in water
colors, illustrative of the resources of Kansas
City and the States of Kansas, Missouri, Texas.
Colorado and the Indian Territory. Kansas
u3 Wiueeu ugurc
seated on hemisphere, on which is traced the
outlines of the States named. of which Kansas
City Is the gateway. The second sketch Kan
sasl is a figure bearing a sheaf of wheat IN her
arms and carrying in her hand a suntiower.
Mssouri IL represented by a maiden seated on
some sheaves of garnered wheat At the feet of
the ngure Is a cornucopia from which fruits,
vegetables and cereals have fallen in Drofusion.
Some chimneys in the distance recall Missouris
manufacturing industries. Vulcan hLtingly
Illustrates the mineral resources of Colorado.
Inc last conception of the artist is his happiest.
1t Is an Indian maiden just awakened from
siumoer. Out of the mists surrounding her
comes the spirit of Progress bearing in her
left hand wreath and whispering to
her promise of what the future has
IN store for her when she 1.-THE Indian
Territory shall have been made State. Then